Public GitHub pull requests with "spine" in the title rose 20-fold in the first nine months of 2026 compared with all of 2025, according to an analysis by software engineer Hillel Wayne, who attribute…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a 3-step plan to "pace the frontier" of AI development, urging a slowdown that critics including Armin Ronacher say can only realistically apply to OpenAI and Anthr…
Buttondown replaced its raw user-agent-string textarea with a Crawling add-on in Settings → Archives that gives users one toggle per crawler category: Search engines (Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, …
In a newsletter post titled 'It's OK. Do Your Thing,' Carlton Gibson, co-host of the Django Chat podcast, expresses reluctance to write about AI, citing a divisive discourse where any comment invites …
Buttondown's blog explains how to back up Gmail and newsletter archives locally, covering .eml, .mbox, .html, and .md file formats and methods such as IMAP sync and manual export. The guide addresses …
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie argue that anthropomorphizing language around AI hinders clear discussion of what these technologies actually do, and propose alternatives such as "probabilistic automat…
Apple has reversed its previous stance on AI photo generation, introducing features in the OS 27 release cycle that allow users to manipulate and alter photographs of real people, contradicting statem…
A video of the microtonal math rock band Angine de Poitrine, wearing polka dot costumes and papier-mâché masks, garnered over 12 million views, with a top comment suggesting AI cannot match human weir…